To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. / (by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.

Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry. / (criminology) Of or characterized by factors that increase the heinousness or offensiveness of the criminal offense.

simple past tense and past participle of aggravate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggravate

plural of aggravative

One who or that which aggravates. / (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”)

plural of aggravation

That which aggravates.

Tending to aggravate.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.